If you're a Sprint subscriber in the Kansas City area, you should probably be getting excited, as Sprint's 4G LTE network went live in portions of that market early yesterday. Sprint has confirmed this with S4GRU, and has stated more markets around the greater Kansas City area will continue to light up until that region's rollout is complete. Additional markets, as we know, are scheduled to go online on the 15th, though based on what we're seeing here, that could be an "at the latest" sort of date.

Are you a Sprint subscriber in the Kansas City area? Post up your Speed Test results in the comments - let's see what Sprint LTE can do.

Wow! That's one entire city with Sprint LTE. That's almost as many as Verizon's 250+ cities (soon to be 400+).

Way to go, Sprint!

jj14x

Verizon also started with one (or a few) cities. Sprint has/had WiMax before the LTE deployment started. Better late than never.

Chris Gustafson

Actually, Verizon launched with 39 markets.

jj14x

Similar to Sprint's unofficial KS launch (official launch is in a few days), Verizon's initial (unofficial) launch was in Charlotte, North Carolina on Dec 2, 2010 - followed with the official launch on Dec 5 to the larger announced market..

While Sprint's official LTE launch is much smaller than 39 markets, do realize that they already have "4G" service with their WiMax service.

My point of course was that the number of cities on launch day doesn't matter as much as what the end result is. Their network vision indicates a pretty good coverage - with pretty quick target dates.

jj14x

Similar to Sprint's unofficial KS launch (official launch is in a few days), Verizon's initial (unofficial) launch was in Charlotte, North Carolina on Dec 2, 2010 - followed with the official launch on Dec 5 to the larger announced market..

While Sprint's official LTE launch is much smaller than 39 markets, do realize that they already have "4G" service with their WiMax service.

My point of course was that the number of cities on launch day doesn't matter as much as what the end result is. Their network vision indicates a pretty good coverage - with pretty quick target dates.